ISN is pleased to invite you to the KDIGO Diabetes in CKD Guideline Webinar: Looking at the Latest Evidence and Beyond, to be held on Monday, June 22, 2020 at 06:00 PM CEST. Join the webinar to learn more about the new KDIGO Guideline on Diabetes Management in CKD, focusing on topics such as glycemic monitoring...
New WCN’20 Content Available on the ISN Academy Additional WCN’20 posters, provided by presenters, are now available online at the ISN educational portal, the ISN Academy: consult posters, poster talks, and visual abstrats.
The Young Nephrologists Committee (YNC) is excited to welcome seven new members representing different regions of the globe: Alexandra Cambier, from France, is a pediatric nephrologist and immunologist with a specialty in pediatric IgA nephropathy. Her primary research interest is the identification of biomarkers for IgA nephropathy in children. She joined the YNC partly to...
ISN is pleased to announce that selected WCN’20 posters as PDFs, poster talks, and visual abstracts will go online at the ISN educational portal, the ISN Academy from April 9 and released in stages throughout the month.
The World Congress of Nephrology in Abu Dhabi is fast-approaching. The Young Nephrologist Committee has put together an exciting program of sessions and events tailored specifically to young nephrologists and trainees: Young Nephrologists Session Saturday 28th March: 12 p.m. - 1 p.m., Capital Suite 5 Learn about the challenges and experiences of young nephrologists from around the world. Talks will...
Below, Left to Right: 1. Mohsen Nafar (President of IrSN and Congress), 2. David Harris (Past-President of ISN), 3. Shahrzad Ossareh (Chair of Middle East Regional Board of ISN, Secretary General of IrSN), 4. Behrooz Broumand (Past President of IrSN), 5. Ghanbarali Raeisjalali (Iranian Nephrologist), 6. Mohammadali Shafiee (Iranian Nephrologist, Canada), 7. Jose Divino (Nephrologist, Brazil) The Iranian...
The 38th edition of the International Vicenza Course on Acute Kidney Injury and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies will be held from May 26-28, 2020, in Vicenza, Italy. This scientific event will host an AKI path, a CRRT path, and a Meet the Expert path, as well as a series of lectures and panel discussions led by world...
As part of the Educational Ambassadors Program (EAP), the ISN supported Jaime Uribarri, from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, to spend one week in May 2019 as ISN Educational Ambassador to train staff at the Hospital Nacional Guillermo Almenara in Lima, Peru. The aim of the training was to increase knowledge about the nutritional management...
Session two of the ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology is now available on the ISN Academy. In this session, the characteristic features of AKI due to acute tubular necrosis are reviewed. The learning objectives are: to understand the pathophysiology of tubular epithelial cell injury and repair as well as the main renal hemodynamic changes...
All sessions of the 17th International Congress of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, held in collaboration with the International Society of Nephrology and Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, taking place in Tabiz, Iran, will be streamed live at the ISN Academy over the three days of the Congress from November 19-22, 2019. If you are unable to...
The ISN Online Curriculum on Intensive Care Nephrology launches today, November 4. Pathophysiological and clinical data, along with clinical case studies, will be presented in four sessions made available on the ISN Academy every two weeks between now and December 16. The course, directed by Eric Rondeau, Professor at APHP - Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France, and...
The ISN Academy and the ISN Education Working Group is pleased to announce a new online educational initiative, KI on the Academy. The Academy will summarize one article per month, selected by the editors of the Kidney International, and present it as a video abstract. This concise video summary will be presented by the author...
As part of the ISN’s capacity building partnership with the Indonesian Society of Nephrology (PERNEFRI), 2 doctors from Mohammad Hoesin General Hospital in Palembang, Indonesia (West Indoniesa) participated in a 2.5-day workshop held at Hospital Tuanku Ja’afar Seremban in Malaysia in June 2019. The Masterclass included a comprehensive training in standard operating procedure, management of complications...
With support from the ISN Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital and the George Institute for Global Health in India organized a specific training course on interventional nephrology, specifically tailored to the needs of nephrologists in resource-poor settings. Some 77 participants from across four of the six geopolitical zones of...
In July 2019, the second series of clinical trials curated by the ISN Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) team will get us thinking about nephrology research and encourage more discussion about transplant, glomerular diseases and pediatric nephrology: from the role of EPO post-transplant, tacrolimus dosing in Asian transplant recipients to the optimal duration of steroids...
As members of the @ISNeducation Social Media team, nephrologists from institutes worldwide have taken on a stronger presence on social media. They are sharing knowledge more widely and gaining access to a global nephrology community, expanding their network, and making a global name for themselves. It is a continuing challenge for nephrologists worldwide to present...
The ISN Academy is launching the ISN RenPath quick case series, an online educational program aimed at nephrologists and renal pathologists. From July 8, 2019, interact online with expert presenters and engage with other learners on a broad scope of cases relating to renal pathology. From cases of treated amyloid and progressive proteinuria to...
The ISN World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) drew crowds from all over the world. Now that we have all returned home, delve into the educational experience of WCN 2019 from the comfort of your computer, tablet or phone via the ISN Academy portal. As an ISN Academy member, it is also a great opportunity to...
After many years of partnership with Westmead Hospital and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (Australia), Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) has become a center of excellence, developing cross-regional training programs. Speaking during the Voices of Sister Centers session at the ISN World Congress of Nephrology, Huong Tran explains her own ISN Fellowship...
Register for the June edition of the @ISNeducation webinar - Nuances in Nephrology. Join the presentation on June 19, 2019. On June 19, 2019 at 1600 GMT grab the opportunity to listen to Dr. Jay Seltzer and learn about Urine Microscopy. Moderators include Dr. Arvind Canchi and Dr. Rolando Claure Del Granado. Prepare yourself for...